Kick out the Jams motherf**kers! - Greg kicking out some MC5

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Did this classic from The MC5 just for shits and grins because it's an awesome song and I wanted play with some new guitar shit. :guitar:

Kick out the Jams


Kick out the Jams 320kb/s

Any mix comments/critiques welcome and appreciated. :listeningmusic:

Enjoy if you can. :D
 
Well done man....sounds good as usual. Fun was had, right? :D
 
believe it or not ..... I saw MC5 in 1969 or thereabouts.
I would have been about 17 and was playing a couple of their songs in one of the bands I was in.
They had, for the time, one of the hugest PAs around and were proud of being loud.
I don't remember much about it but I do remember when they did their "Gimme an F .... give me a U ....... gimme a C .... " .... I was the only guy that yelled out FUCK when they got to the end.
Some older guy turned around and said, "How would you like me to put this cigar out in your eye?"

I said, "Not particularly."

:D

Sounds good greg ..... sounds like MC5 for one thing.
The sound is very tight and focused.
You're at the point where improvements in your recordings are incremental but they're still coming.
Way cool!
 
Free John Sinclair!!

Man you've been going way back in the way-back-machine lately. You are dangerously straddling hippie territory here... :)
This was never my fave MC5 song, but I've always been biased against bands' flagship tunes and of course you do a great job in the performance and mixing, giving it a nice modern feel.
Funny, we just watched the movie Mean Creek at my place a couple nights ago and Poison from High Time is playing in the background in a couple different places. Anyways great job, but post a FLAC file next time. This 320kbs MP3 is hurting my ears.
 
Lt. Bob said:
yeah ...... I don't know who came up with it first but the MC5 definitely did it that night. Got me threatened they did.
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That word sure rustled some tail feathers back then. Nowadays you can't sell a song without it!
 
Dogman said:
Well done man....sounds good as usual. Fun was had, right? :D
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Thanks dogfart. Yes, fun was had by....just me. :D

Lt. Bob said:
believe it or not ..... I saw MC5 in 1969 or thereabouts.
I would have been about 17 and was playing a couple of their songs in one of the bands I was in.
They had, for the time, one of the hugest PAs around and were proud of being loud.
I don't remember much about it but I do remember when they did their "Gimme an F .... give me a U ....... gimme a C .... " .... I was the only guy that yelled out FUCK when they got to the end.
Some older guy turned around and said, "How would you like me to put this cigar out in your eye?"

I said, "Not particularly."

:D

Sounds good greg ..... sounds like MC5 for one thing.
The sound is very tight and focused.
You're at the point where improvements in your recordings are incremental but they're still coming.
Way cool!
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Thanks Boob. That's a good story. So how was the show? They were pretty much a trainwreck from all the footage I've seen.

fat_fleet said:
Free John Sinclair!!

Man you've been going way back in the way-back-machine lately. You are dangerously straddling hippie territory here... :)
This was never my fave MC5 song, but I've always been biased against bands' flagship tunes and of course you do a great job in the performance and mixing, giving it a nice modern feel.
Funny, we just watched the movie Mean Creek at my place a couple nights ago and Poison from High Time is playing in the background in a couple different places. Anyways great job, but post a FLAC file next time. This 320kbs MP3 is hurting my ears.
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Thanks dude. I agree about a bands big hits, but I'm not really into the MC5's jammy slopfests, which sadly makes up 75% of their catalog. They weren't a hippie band, but they sure came close to sounding like one sometimes. I just like this song because it was really ahead of it's time as far as it's power and aggression goes. And not may mid 60's songs start out with "motherfucker". :D
 
excellent sond and nice playing. i wonder what it would sound like with the vocals doubled.
 
groovyisland said:
excellent sond and nice playing. i wonder what it would sound like with the vocals doubled.
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Thanks. I thought about doubling the vocals, but just simply didn't feel like it. I really just banged this out and didn't intend to do anything with it. Like the lead guitar - it's total crap, but I wanted to record my new Greenbacks and get stupid with a wah. :guitar:
 
Excellent! Good wah work and those greenbacks sound pretty good.
 
Greg_L said:
. So how was the show? They were pretty much a trainwreck from all the footage I've seen.
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I have no idea. I would have been a senior in high school in Baton Rouge with limited concert exposure. I had actually played way more gigs than I had gone to shows.

From what I remember they were loudish ...... pretty basic ....... kinda sloppy.

But it wouldn't be fair to make much of that ...... I was still way into jazz and 'legit' music and wasn't able to make judgements about raw R&R.
They may have rocked out with their cocks out and I wouldn't have gotten it.

Don't forget .... we're talking about around 1969 or 1970 in Baton Rouge. Kids around there weren't yet sneaking into clubs to see the Ramones or whatever and even if they did there was no one like that around here.
The big bands around here were more like Wilson Pickett type stuff. Ummm .... the Boogie Kings were big ..... they were an awesome blue eyed soul band with 4 piece horn section.
That was the kind of thing I had been exposed to so I didn't really know what to make of someone like MC5 even though we were doing a couple of their songs.
 
brilliant!...a great tune and a great version...fuck your guitars sound good...as much energy as the original :thumbs up:


I saw them around 10 years ago in London's South Bank...I think the guitar pick was the only original member lol, they were awful :D
 
note to self: check monitor levels before motherfucker is yell :o
 
Yeah, this one sounds great. I hear no mix or performance issues at all. It's a fun tune. I don't know it...I've heard of MC5 before I think, but never heard any of their music. Were you trying to be pretty faithful to the original here? It certainly doesn't sound like your typical '60's band tune, but I guess they weren't really typical of the period, huh?

I think the guitar solo sounded particularly nice on this. Good job.
 
ido1957 said:
Excellent! Good wah work and those greenbacks sound pretty good.
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Thanks dude. :)

Just for clarification - just the lead was recorded through the Greenbacks. The rhythms were done through the G12T-75's. I had the rhythms done before the Greenbacks went into the cab. The guitar was a Les Paul. Amp, Marshall JCM 900. The wah was a Crybaby 535Q. Little bit of TC Electronic Flashback Delay on the big bends at the end of the first lead and outro lead. No distortion pedals or anything. Just amp.

Lt. Bob said:
I have no idea. I would have been a senior in high school in Baton Rouge with limited concert exposure. I had actually played way more gigs than I had gone to shows.

From what I remember they were loudish ...... pretty basic ....... kinda sloppy.

But it wouldn't be fair to make much of that ...... I was still way into jazz and 'legit' music and wasn't able to make judgements about raw R&R.
They may have rocked out with their cocks out and I wouldn't have gotten it.

Don't forget .... we're talking about around 1969 or 1970 in Baton Rouge. Kids around there weren't yet sneaking into clubs to see the Ramones or whatever and even if they did there was no one like that around here.
The big bands around here were more like Wilson Pickett type stuff. Ummm .... the Boogie Kings were big ..... they were an awesome blue eyed soul band with 4 piece horn section.
That was the kind of thing I had been exposed to so I didn't really know what to make of someone like MC5 even though we were doing a couple of their songs.
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That's cool. As far as I know, the MC5 were one of the earliest bands to have every member using full Marshall stacks blaring at max. They later switched to Orange and Fender stuff, but it was always big loud and nasty. They were kind of duped into being the band of a revolution by their manager, even though they really wanted nothing to do with 60's politics. They just wanted to fuck and rock.

kcearl said:
brilliant!...a great tune and a great version...fuck your guitars sound good...as much energy as the original :thumbs up:


I saw them around 10 years ago in London's South Bank...I think the guitar pick was the only original member lol, they were awful :D
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Thanks K. I am pretty happy with how the guitars came out. It's all coming together.

heatmiser said:
Yeah, this one sounds great. I hear no mix or performance issues at all. It's a fun tune. I don't know it...I've heard of MC5 before I think, but never heard any of their music. Were you trying to be pretty faithful to the original here? It certainly doesn't sound like your typical '60's band tune, but I guess they weren't really typical of the period, huh?

I think the guitar solo sounded particularly nice on this. Good job.
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Thanks man. I wasn't trying to be too faithful to the original. I mean, the song is so basic and simple that you can't stray too far off of it without it falling apart, but I tried to just make it rock. Loud guitars, banging drums, blown out vocals. There's also no studio version that I'm aware of. Every recorded version I've ever heard of this song was done live. So it's a little different every time. I kind of blended all of the live versions I know into one. I kind of hinted at it earlier, but I think they were mostly a pretty typical mid-late 60's American rock band. A lot of their stuff is loose and jammy and kind of almost psychadelic-ish. You might actually like the rest of their catalog. But it all has this raw edge to it that you'd expect from a band from Detroit. This song is their most popular, but also their most balls-out rocking IMO. I wouldn't touch a lot of their other stuff.

The MC5's proteges - The Stooges - took it one step further and are one of my all-time favorite bands.
 
Greg_L said:
Thanks man. I wasn't trying to be too faithful to the original. I mean, the song is so basic and simple that you can't stray too far off of it without it falling apart, but I tried to just make it rock. Loud guitars, banging drums, blown out vocals. There's also no studio version that I'm aware of. Every recorded version I've ever heard of this song was done live. So it's a little different every time. I kind of blended all of the live versions I know into one. I kind of hinted at it earlier, but I think they were mostly a pretty typical mid-late 60's American rock band. A lot of their stuff is loose and jammy and kind of almost psychadelic-ish. You might actually like the rest of their catalog. But it all has this raw edge to it that you'd expect from a band from Detroit. This song is their most popular, but also their most balls-out rocking IMO. I wouldn't touch a lot of their other stuff.

The MC5's proteges - The Stooges - took it one step further and are one of my all-time favorite bands.
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Cool, maybe I'll check some of their stuff out. I noticed when I googled them there were all kinds of side links to Iggy Pop and stuff and I didn't get the connection. Now I'm really curious.

This really is a good one. I like the ones that you say you kind of threw together.
 
heatmiser said:
Cool, maybe I'll check some of their stuff out. I noticed when I googled them there were all kinds of side links to Iggy Pop and stuff and I didn't get the connection. Now I'm really curious.

This really is a good one. I like the ones that you say you kind of threw together.
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Thanks. I agree, my wham-bam-kock-em-out-quick jobs, be they originals or covers, are always my better songs in my own opinion. That might be why I never finish songs that don't finish themselves. I've got a ton of half-done songs just sitting around.
 
kcearl said:
Stooges are excellent
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Fuck yeah. If the Ramones are generally considered the founding fathers of what is commonly known as punk, The Stooges were the Godfathers. In their musical time period, they might as well been from outer space.
 
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